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Infected Mushroom: "Legend Of The Black Shawarma"

  Tobias

Lot of blah-de-blah on the blogs and such about this not being (as expected in keeping with this Israeli electro duo’s original pigeonhole) psy-trance, probably owing to all the drum n bass that goes on (if you’re not a walking Wikipedia, DnB involves a lot of skittering, super-speed drumbeats).

But psy-trance (originally concocted in Goa, India, and heralded by KLF’s “What Time is Love,” a tune that would seem to modern ears a slowed-down version of the Mortal Kombat theme song as re-done by Chemical Brothers in a Marky Mark mood) is now a genre heavily dependent on what goes on in Israel, thus whatever these guys do is, well, state-of-the-art psy-trance, which is now spilling over into the “psybreaks” space, hence the hyper-ass breakbeating, and now you know these things, and there will be lots of talk in your favorite horrible pop-culture mags about this record, so they’re good to know.  Not a lot of official-traditional “trance” on here, beats-per-minute-wise; one of the dudes loves his heavy metal, so there are quite a few hard guitar lines (Korn guy Jonathan Davis and Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell do drop-ins).

Album opener “Poquito Mas” sets the tone, honky-hiphop flows bonded to buzzing, hyper, in-your-face electronics. You know who’d probably love this record is someone who’s not getting enough content from Pendulum and Justice at once, if you can dig that at all.

By Eric Saeger

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